Renzenbrink & Partner advises Bregal Unternehmerkapital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Channel Pilot Solutions
14. November 2023Renzenbrink & Partner advised funds advised by Bregal Unternehmerkapital (BU) on the acquisition of a majority stake in Channel Pilot Solutions GmbH (Channel Pilot Solutions).
With its Channel Pilot Pro tool, Hamburg-based Channel Pilot Solutions GmbH, founded in 2012, provides companies with a cloud platform to optimize their product presence and availability on various online sales channels and to dynamically adjust prices. The fast-growing, cloud-based feed and channel management solution is used by around 3,500 online stores of blue-chip customers in the DACH region, France and Spain, including the majority of the top 25 e-commerce retailers in Germany.
BU is also one of the leading investors in the field of software providers in German-speaking countries. Channel Pilot Solutions will form the second nucleus within a new e-commerce software group, after BU has already laid the foundation with the majority acquisition of Billbee, a leading provider of multichannel e-commerce software for smaller retailers.
Renzenbrink & Partner advised BU with a team consisting of Dr. Andreas Stoll, Dr. UIf Renzenbrink, Dr. Andreas Sandberger, Moritz Rojek, Malte Pulmer (all Corporate/PE) as well as Marc Holger Kotyrba and Dr. Toufic Schilling (Tax) on all legal issues in connection with the acquisition.
KNPZ Rechtsanwälte advised on IP law issues with a team consisting of Dr. Kai-Uwe Plath, Dr. Enno ter Hazeborg and Jan Schäfer.